Fancy typography doesn’t require expensive software. Thanks to the OpenType font format, the newest versions of everyday software (and the pro stuff) can tap into a ...

The OpenType SVG Font Editor is a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app for embedding SVG glyphs in an OpenType font. It was designed to simplify the process of creating SVG-based icon fonts, with web ...

OpenType Font (OTF) and TrueType Font (TTF) are two different file formats for representing fonts on computers. But if you want to know which format to choose, there isn’t an easy answer. Those ...

When the OpenType font format was announced more than 12 years ago, one of its most promising features was a new level of intelligence built into the font. The idea was that the font could ...

Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls (U+13430–U+1343F) are Unicode characters that specify the layout of hieroglyphic text. While these controls are defined in the Unicode standard, they typically ...

Postscript is all but gone, and today, newer font standards such as TrueType and OpenType rule the roost. Here's how we got from desktop PostScript in the early '80s to today. When the Mac first ...

Generally speaking, file formats don’t impact a great deal on day-to-day computing. The majority of file types can be made to work independently of operating systems or software. Exceptions exist: ...

As the bugs targeted by minor releases to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard become increasingly specific, it’s easy to become complacent about the possibility of an update introducing a new problem. That, ...